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>Most people there learn to try EIRE or 00000.

I think this is the key point. Sure, you can come up with some clever and unique system to accommodate the one percent of your user base who isnt well served by standard forms, but that 1% is already used to adapting their unique information into a standard format.

Web forms for things like name and address are a sort of ad-hoc standardization of a nonstandard data type.




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